A recent opinion piece in the secular press by a young writer took issue with the “Mandelification of the struggle”. In her Sunday Independent article, Mailaka wa Azania points to “a deliberate process of socialisation spanning decades” that constructed a personality cult around Nelson Mandela which ignores the contribution of others—individuals, movements and the unnamed […]

When the global financial crisis of 2008 hit, the politicians’ promise was that economic policy would change for the better, that the bankers and speculators whose machinations created the crisis would be held to account.

The deeply troubling reports of the persecution of Christians in the Middle East, Pakistan and parts of Africa, and anti-Muslim sentiments in the West, are feeding a sense of the religions being at war with another.